The Black Hand was a movement, a military group and sometimes a secret society. They existed, not only in Serbia where they became most famous, but also in Palestine during the 1930’s. But the main focus of the Black Hand at the time World War One began was Serbian Liberation.

The Black Hand was founded on 6 September 1901, as a Serbian liberation group. The conspirators’ first meeting was in the same year. In attendance: captains Radomir Aranđelović, Milan F. Petrović, and Dragutin Dimitrijević, as well as lieutenants Antonije Antić, Dragutin Dulić, Milan Marinković, and Nikodije Popović. They wanted to free Serbia from the Royal Family of Serbia in the early 1900’s. King Alexander I Obrenovic and Queen Draga were murdered in May of 1903 by the members of the Black Hand.

In 1908, the Serbian and Bosnian territories were annexed by the government of Austria-Hungary. The Black Hand once again would be concentrating on liberating Serbia from an oppressive monarchy. At this same time, there were other slavic countries being controlled by the Austrian-Hungarian army and other liberation groups formed in these countries as well. For instance, there was “Young Bosnia” in Bosnia, but also groups formed in Herzegovina, Istria and Slovenia. Young Bosnia, however, may be credited with having the biggest influence of all in Europe in the early years of war.

In Serejevo, the capitol of Bosnia at the time, the crowned prince of Austria-Hungary Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were on a visit. There were two attempts on the life of the crowned prince while in Serejevo and the second one was successful. A member of Young Bosnia, Gavrilo Princip, ran out into the street next to the car that was carrying Franz Ferdinand and his wife and Gavrilo shot them both dead. A satellite group of the Black Hand, Young Bosnia, had produced a young man with the courage to fight for the liberation of the slavics and serbs from the Austria-Hungarian Empire.

Though a young Bosnian was the one who killed the crowned prince, Austria-Hungary blamed Serbian nationals. They were to go to war with Serbia, but more important was the complicated network of allies Austria-Hungary had, including perhaps most importantly, Germany. Lead by Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany had been developing it’s mighty military for years and by 1914 had an intimidating force. On land as well as at sea. Though, at this point in time, Europe still did not quite realize that there would be such a large conflict. A conflict indirectly influenced by the Black Hand of Serbia.

Austria-Hungary, after the death of Franz Ferdinand , has directly threatened Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina and old Ottoman Empire, so Serbia asked Russia for help. Russia was a neighbor and ally of the Serbs, but this prompted the Austria-Hungarian Empire to turn to Germany for help. When Russia realized they would be fighting a war as allies of the Serbs and Slavs against Germany and Austria-Hungary, they decided to involve other world powers and allies, Britain and France. With the Germans fighting a war on two fronts, one in the east and one in the west, there was need to invade France. The Kaiser saw no direct way through France’s front lines, so they decided to invade France using a route that lead them through Belgium.

In the east, at the beginning of the war, Germany and Austria did a decent job of repelling the Russians and so the fighting on the western front intensified. It was the birth of trench warfare when the French, Belgians and British fought the Germans in World War One. Canada was also involved in World War One, because they were allied with the British Empire, so they gave troops and aid to Britain throughout the war. Poland was not an official country during World War One, but there was much death in the area that became Poland in later years. In the British Union of South Africa, there was an order to attack the German Annexed territory of Western South Africa or “German Western South Africa.” This was due to their proximity to the coast of Africa. When war was declared by Britain in 1914 against Germany, India, a British ally, also rallied to the cause and fought in the trenches along side the British army during much of the war, though their part is often overlooked by historians. The “India Corps” was even awarded medals of military valor by the Queen. Along with India and Canada were New Zealand and Australia, also giving aid to Britain. Needless to say, many world powers had a stake in World War One in 1914. Italy, as well, was involved, but in World War One they fought for the allies, mostly with an interest in gaining territory from Austria-Hungary. Though, America would not find an interest until 1917, which is when America entered the war, however they did send aid to the allies throughout the conflict taking place. In fact, it was the Kaiser’s desire to cut this aid that would involve America in World War One at all.

The slaughter in the trenches continued on the western front and a term called “going over the top” was coined by the soldiers. Basically, the pattern of battle was the same on the western front. The artillery would bombard the enemy on the other side of what was called “no man’s land” and then the infantry would “go over the top” of the trenches to fight one another and almost certainly die. Either by being shot, being gassed, being hit with shrapnel from artillery or hand to hand combat with the enemy. Millions died.

At sea, the German “U-Boat” or submarine controlled the waters and threatened shipping and trading throughout most of the war. They would sink military vessels and commercial vessels alike and this had a terrible affect on trade and commerce. Germany and England had had a naval arms race leading up to World War One, but there were very few naval battles fought between actual battleships on either side. The use of the U-Boat to sink American commerce ships is what prompted then President, Woodrow Wilson, to convince the American people it was time to enter the war and that Germany was threatening democracy and the world economy through their attacks on the shipping industry of the Atlantic ocean. It took America’s involvement in the war at Sea, as well as dropping endless amounts of mines in the Atlantic and having military escorts for commercial vessels traveling in convoys to help control the u-boats. Then there was the advantage of looking for them from the air, because u-boats had to stay surfaced most of the time in the early 1900’s. These planes would not only be used to detect the submarines, but also to drop bombs and mines on the surfaced u-boats and destroy them. As soon as the u-boat problem was under control, which was around 1917 or early 1918, American troops began to be ferried across the Atlantic to the aid of the allies. The allies, needless to say, were glad for the reinforcements from the Americans as well as being happy to have their supply routes back in their own hands at sea.

On the Eastern front, in 1914, Austria-Hungary had invaded Serbia, which prompted Russia to invade both Germany and Austria. The fighting on the eastern front was just as bloody as the fighting on the western front or the fight to control the Atlantic. The Russians had a large army, but their early losses in the war convinced the Germans that Russia would be easily defeated as well as quickly. The Russians were fighting a war on two fronts, with Germany and with Austria and their army was weakening and was badly in need of reinforcements and supplies. The Russian losses prompted the Kaiser to invade Poland and begin to expand his empire to the east, but the Russian army was able to hold the Polish capitol of Warsaw and despite their terrific losses, went on the offensive after holding out against the Germans. Over a million Russian casualties were sustained in 1914 alone and the Germans thought of the Russian army as “throwing men at them.” More Russian losses prompted Austria and Germany to look for a quick victory on the eastern front, while being at a virtual stalemate on the western front and they decided to attack. The cold had a terrible effects on the Austrian troops. Germans, Russians and Serbs alike seemed to be wondering what they were doing out in the cold as well as the Russians becoming desperate. The situation became even more desperate in 1915 when Turkey joined the war on the side of Germany and the Russians were now fighting a war on three fronts.

Eventually, the Russians were re-enforced by the allies and another development took place to lessen the beating they were taking on the eastern front. In 1915, Italy joined the war on the side of the allies and sent their army north toward mountain territory held by Austria and so troops were diverted from the eastern front to defend against the Italians. The Turks were eventually beaten back by the Russians at about a year into the war, but Germany still believed they were on a path to a quick victory in the east. After the winter of 1915, the Russian army was desperate and depleted and seemed close to retreat back into Russian territory.

By 1916, frustrated, Tzar Nicholas of Russia declared himself supreme commander of the Russian military and appointed a new man in charge on the eastern front. This man was General Alexander Bruselov, and he planned an attack across the 200 mile long eastern line. An attack that would take place first against the Austrians and afterwards against the Germans, the Russians won a bitter victory against the Austrians and captured much of their territory. By that winter, Germany desperately needed to reenforce the Austrian lines or else lose the eastern front.

At this point, in the west, there was a stalemate between the allies and Germany. There was fierce fighting for territory and the usual terrible winter on the eastern front. In the south, Italy was fighting in the mountains against the Austrians and seemed to be winning, but it was hard for many to tell. Civilians back at home and away from the front were beginning to feel the effects of the war due to lack of food and foreign invasions. Russia was on the verge of revolution and it seemed the Tzar would finally be overthrown. In late 1916, a provisional government took over in Russia and the Tzar was ousted as eel as his family. The Russian soldiers felt they were now truly fighting for their homeland and no longer felt so desperate, but it was not looking as though the Russian troops would fight. It looked as though they were going home to a free Russia and it did not matter to them what happened to the country politically. Eventually, Germany and Austria no longer had an army to fight on the eastern front and by late 1917, Russia was in full on revolt and the people had laid waste to the Tzar’s palace. The allies did not have a favorable situation in front of them and at this point, were hoping that the help form America would be enough to turn the tide on the western front.

America entered the war late in 1917, but mainly in 1918 and saw combat mainly on the western front. The American troops were enthusiastic and ready to face the German army, but they had little experience in true combat, which worried commanders on the side of the allies. After all, the allies had seen millions of casualties, full on mutinies in France’s military and the Russian Revolution. europeans were tired of war, all except Germany, who were sure they would win the war by 1918. They had effectively won the war in the East, though Russia would keep it’s territory and itself become a new country after the Russian Communist Revolution. The eastern territories would never look the same after World War One. Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Austria, Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, the Slavics, the Balkans and Turkey would all look very different. Some of these countries would no longer exist or would exist in new territories and with new names and governments. In late 1917, the Italians were in full retreat and had to re-group and would not be able to counter-attack until 1918, which is what Italy did. Italy successfully saved itself from Austria-Hungary and pushed them out of Italian territory, which would eventually lead to the end of Austria. However, in 1918, the western front would take center stage in the first world war.

By the summer of 1918, there were a million American soldiers on the ground in Europe. By September of 1918, the allies were on the attack and were gaining more and more ground against the Germans. Bolstered by the Americans, the allies were almost winning through sheer numbers that autumn. At eleven o’clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, being November eleventh, 1918 an armistice was signed and the war was over. The artillery on the western front had all of a sudden fallen silent for the first time in nearly four years. The Kaiser had gone into exile and the supreme commander of German forces had been fired just days before the war was over. But, now that the war was over, what was to become of Europe, Germany, Belgium, Austria and other countries who’s fates had not yet been decided. The German army was in full retreat back to Germany as long as they remained with their own colors and were not prisoners of war. The German navy officially surrendered on November 23rd, 1918 and their ships were commandeered by the British Royal Navy. Later, those same German ships would be sunk. The war was truly over for everybody involved.

In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed between Germany and the Allied powers and many hoped this would result in worldwide peace. A predecessor to the United Nations was born to police the world and keep this peace, so there would never be another world war. But we all know that europe would quickly fall apart once again and the rise of Facism and Adolf Hitler would result in a Second World War within 30 years of the Versailles Treaty. There were countless revolutions and civil wars that took place, borders were re-negotiated and country’s names and governments were changed. Mussolini would soon take power in Italy and America would soon become isolationist, while facing the great depression and internal issues. There would be yet another war before Europe was truly brought into peacetime and other focuses took center on the world stage.

But let’s not forget, these events began because of the decision of one young man. Call him a community organizer or a protester, call him a terrorist or an anarchist, even call him a political agitator or a murderer, but he changed the world forever. He changed the fate of his own country and the countries surrounding his country. He changed the fate of his people, one young Bosnian named Gavrilo Princip shot Franz Ferdinand, the crowned prince of Austria-Hungary. He shot him and his wife in the name of freedom, liberty and revolution. He did it for anyone who has been oppressed by theirs or a foreign government and anyone who has ever desired freedom from said oppression. One man, no matter how young, can truly change the world and the story of Gavrilo Princip reminds us of that, though he is often overlooked in the history books as an overzealous teenaged rebel. Those of us who protest now, what are we? But overzealous teenaged rebels, even if it is on the inside and not on the outside. If you believe in freedom and you believe in the revolution, those ideals have the ability to keep one forever young and forever protesting, but most importantly, forever seeking a better world for us to live in.

A man can stand alone, and change everything by taking one single action. It gives someone like me hope, that maybe someday I’ll be a hero and a villain to history all at the same time, but that I will matter to history.

I Dont Always Text While I Am Riding My Motorcycle…But When I Do Its Because I Am Above The Law.

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Today, four years since the official bottom of the 2007-2009 recession and financial crisis, you can add a surprising voice to the list of those still waiting for a recovery: America’s small banks. As CNNMoney’s Stephen Gandel notes, the banking recovery has been uneven; small lenders are still in trouble, and some continue to fail even as loan quality at larger institutions has rebounded sharply. The U.S. banking sector is becoming a two-class system: big banks are getting bigger, and small local banks are dying. Large banks are driving a Wal-Martization of the banking sector. As with Wal-Mart, the implications for Americans’ standard of living are not good.

14 Principled Anti-War Celebrities We Fear May Have Been Kidnapped

Our government is yet again marching us towards a war of choice in the Middle East and our non-partisan, peace-loving celebrities have gone missing since late 2008. We fear the worst.

1. Sheryl Crow

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.”— Sheryl Crow

2. Bruce Springsteen

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.”— Bruce Springsteen

3. Martin Sheen

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“But I am equally against the death penalty or war — anywhere people are sacrificed for some end justifying a means.”— Martin Sheen

4. Ed Asner

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.” — Ed Asner

5. Sean Penn

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“I think we’re past that point in human evolution where there’s such a thing as winning wars.”— Sean Penn

6. Tim Robbins

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“It is very inspiring and amusing how many people have come out in this genuine and spontaneous way to embrace peace and reject war. It reminds us there is a human and gentle spirit out there in this world.”— Tim Robbins

7. George Clooney

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“You can’t beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking.”— George Clooney

8. Jackson Browne

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“American people always have to be tricked into going to war, they always have to be cajoled. I mean, there’s a long history of being lied to, of having things described in a particular way, in order to get them out of their sort of isolationist… prosperity mode and go to war.”— Jackson Brown

9. Janeane Garofalo

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed!”— Janeane Garofalo

10. Neil Young

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“I don’t like war. I particularly don’t like the celebration of war.”— Neil Young

11. Jessica Lange

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“Let’s talk for a minute about these masters of war, these same men that are sending our sons and our daughters, our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers to fight an undeclared and unconstitutional and unwinnable war for them.”— Jessica Lange

12. Barbra Streisand

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“You know, really good artists have a way of being relevant in their time — but great artists are relevant at any time. So, in the words of William Shakespeare, ‘Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.”— Barbra Streisand

13. Danny Glover

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“The world has come together and said ‘no’ to this war – and we must stand with them.”— Danny Glover

14. Susan Sarandon

LAST KNOWN PRE-2009 COMMUNICATION:“Let us resist this war. Let us hate war in all its forms, whether the weapon used is a missile or an airplane.”— Susan Sarandon

The only explanation for their continued silence must be a large, organized kidnapping. To whoever is responsible for their disappearance, please post pictures of them holding a recent newspaper so we know they’re okay. Maybe one of these:

There are these tiles that someone glued to the asphault of major cities in the Americas, that is, North and South America. I’m pretty sure they are mostly in the United States, but they have been documented all over the place. They’ve been dubbed the “Toynbee Tiles” over time and there was a lot of mystery and conspiracy surrounding the maker or makers of these tiles for many years. Supposedly all the way back in the eightie these tiles were showing up. There was a message on the tiles, a seemingly nonsensical message referring to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oddyssey. The same message would show up on the majority of the tiles, but there would also be smaller messages surrounding the tile in smaller text. These smaller messages often would go unnoticed by the average passers-by, but anyone who concentrated on the tiles would notice the fine print. Many of the smaller messages seemed to deal with government and media conspiracies, which make the tiles even more intriguing, if you’re into that sort of thing. On one of these tiles, in one of these smaller messages, it simply read; “kill all journalists. I beg you.”

The mystery surrounding these tiles had to do with their meaning, but more specifically, the lack of meaning. It was an impossible mystery to solve or so it seemed. John Foy, a movie director, made a documentary about these tiles. The documentary follows three men who are borderline obsessed with figuring out the meaning behind these tiles. The tiles themselves said “Toynbee idea in movie 2001 resurrect the dead on planet Jupiter.” It refers to an idea that a historian named Arnold Toynbee had, which hypothesized that the dead molecules of everyone who ever died would be resurrected on the planet Jupiter and it happens to also be referred to in Kubrick’s famous film. Despite the fact that most of the tile’s messages seem like the insane rants of a conspiracy nut, kill all journalists resonates with me.

Am I a journalist? I started in hip hop, largely to gain attention, to give myself a voice in a world that I felt lost in. I started in writing in order to give my whole generation a voice in a world where I’ve always felt that we are not ever heard. I report on everything that I find interesting and my own opinions and theories are often intertwined in my own reporting, which the average journalist may consider bad etiquette. My ideas are the fuel that keeps my writing going, just as there is a man who made these Toynbee Tiles, I am a man with ideas that I contribute to the world. There is a person behind everything that exists in the physical world. In one of the Toynbee tiles that has been documented, it say “I’m just one man.” And the guys in the documentary do eventually find that it is, in fact, just one crazy guy putting these tiles down on the concrete all across the continent. To me, after hearing a description of the tiler, I felt that he was probably very socially akward, an avid conspiracy theorist, a hermit and maybe a paranoid schizophrenic. He obviously wanted his ideas to be heard by the world, but without him having to physically tell the world his ideas. Every conspiracy theorist probably wishes that journalists would all just spontaneously and simultaneously combust. They’re liars, but what are we? What am I?

I drove around for months with a bumper sticker on the back of my car that read; “Don’t Believe The Liberal Media” in big bold letters with a red and white background. Kill all the journalists, maybe it is just the ranting of a crazy person, but there would be a lot less misinformation if there were no journalists. Ridding the world of the media would take away an outlet that is used by all major world powers to control and misinform the populous. These days I can’t tell what is a lie and what is the truth and it seems as though it is as unsolvable a mystery as the identity of the Toynbee Tiles perpetrator. The three men who followed the Toynbee mystery literally to it’s doorstep, were disappointed that when they knocked on that door, there was no answer. The man, the one man who had inspired their quest for knowledge had turned out to be a shut-in and, though it was obvious he was at home, he would not answer the door. They had answered the question of who, but there were more important questions like why. Why Toynbee? Why Kubrick? Why Jupiter? How is it that this theory, of all the insane and far fetched ideas that educated men have had throughout history, how could this be the one that stood out. The resurrection of humans on the planet Jupiter. It opens up an endless existencial search for information or meaning that has a roadblock right at the beginning. They had a name and address and no answer at the door, and there would be no answer.

The man behind the tiles was obviously brilliant on some level, but many crazy people are brilliant. In fact, it is their very brilliance and intelligence that causes their eventual break with reality. For if you are intelligent and clear-minded enough to see the world for what it truly is, to stare reality in the face, this world will drive you insane. A man’s search for meaning is never ending and those of us who are brilliant seem unable to let go of the fact that we may never find the meaning. And that, in my humble opinion, is enough to drive any person out of their mind eventually. Ignorance is truly bliss.

Part of my search for meaning has been to put my opinion out in the world for everyone to see it, whether they love it or hate it, it’s nearly impossible not to have seen it at least once. Shameless promotion of ideas or an idea is how many people deal with reality and the world we all have to face every morning when we get out of bed. The very thing which you tell all your friends is keeping you busy and keeping you from going crazy, is exactly the thing that is going to land you in the loony bin someday. Accept it, because it’s true. And right now if you are reading this and simultaneously thinking, “wow I totally know what he means,” you’re fucked just like the rest of the people who have a mind.

So what was the meaning of these tiles? Was it simply just to inform the world that one day all of us could possibly be brought back from the dead on Jupiter? Science has proven that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, which means that when we die, our essence is still left over in this dimension. Toynbee believed that if we could reconstruct that essence in exactly the same way it was put together while that person was still alive, then they would be alive once again. Someone became so obsessed with this idea that it became a part of their life and of their pathology. So much so that they felt it necessary to travel all around putting these tiles down in cross-walks, on freeway exit ramps and city sidewalks. The journey that this idea inspired was so powerful that it began to cross over into the lives of other people that read the tiles and sent them on a journey of their own. It’s impossible to know in advance what kind of effect one’s idea may have on people once those ideas have been unleashed on the world. The holocaust, the civil rights movement, the Communist revolution and many other major events in history were originally inspired by an idea. Ideas can be dangerous, but ideas can be the greatest thing that ever happened as well. Ideas alter people’s lives and more importantly, ideas change the world and the course of our history. Everybody has seen protesters wearing bandanas over their faces and those bandanas say “you can’t arrest an idea.” And you truly cannot arrest an idea, once it is formed it cannot be stopped. Even if the person who has the original idea dies, as long as there are people to carry on the legacy of their idea, then it will live on.

The revolution, the proverbial revolution, is just another idea that caught on. The first man who ever saw political injustice or witnessed governments and leaders who had much too much power as well as the consequences that come along with those types of scenarios, there was a first person to see all those issues and decide that something different needed to be done. The first man who thought of the first revolution in the history of the human race probably did not know what he was doing at the time. He did not realize that his little idea would be refined and built upon by those who would later follow in his footsteps. He had no idea how many revolutions there would be over the course of human history, but he knew it was time for a change. It’s impossible to know who that man was and what revolution he created, but it is obvious the effect it has had on the history of mankind.

But, unfortunately, the first time the revolution happened, it was in it’s purest form and now it has become convoluted. The human race inevitably changes everything for the worse eventually, and ironically it is usually in the name of so-called progress. Today’s revolution is not the same as the American Revolution or the French Revolution, though it is disguised as if it was the same. The proletariat is no longer truly in control of the revolution and the control has fallen into the hands of community organizers and so-called activists. The man who was behind the Toynbee Tiles was a true activist and a true revolutionary. And his direct action, the way he was going to spread his message across the land was through these tiles. But all these kids fighting “this terrible capitalist system” seem to be white kids, with a lot of time on their hands and very little knowledge of what they are actually fighting for. It’s trendy to be a protester, so all these hipsters, punks, yuppies and trustafarians band together and go do nothing. There is still a war in the Middle East, the wealth still sits with the one percent, the federal reserve still operates with impunity, the police seem to become more brutal everyday and the FBI has undercover agents at every major demonstration that takes place in the United States. Community organizers, so-called activists and the liberal media are known to have gotten together and organized the supposedly spontaneous “Occupy Wall Street” movement. And then they exploited unwitting protesters as well as college students and even paid some people to show up at demonstrations to make the movement seem larger. And this is not the only documented incidence of different movements paying people to show up at their protests and events to give a better public appearance. It seems to be a somewhat well known practice even.

So who are we supposed to believe? We can’t believe the politicians or the activists, the right nor the left. We certainly know better than to believe the leaders of organized religions and Americans are very familiar with the corruption within most law enforcement agencies. Often times, it seems to me, that nobody in the world tells the absolute truth about anything anymore and honesty is no longer valued in our society. People know that the church lies, but they donate money every sunday at their respective church services. People give money to political campaigns and environmental campaigns alike. And we pay our taxes and watch the nightly news, which are the biggest scams of them all. Everybody is being lied to on a daily basis and the worst thing is that we accept it. The vast majority of the public is aware we are being lied to, are opposed to the policies and actions of the current administration and it seems that most people are very ready for a change of government. So why is there no revolution taking place? Because all of our leaders are liars, which includes the leaders of leftist political movements as well as rightist political movements. These people would not know a true revolution if it walked up and punched them square in the face. The revolution begins in the minds of the masses and our minds are being controlled by people who do not have our best interests in mind, but only their own personal agenda. The revolution begins with the agenda and demand of the many and not the personal demands of one person or a few people. The revolution will not be televised, because the real revolution will be opposed to the media, whether it’s the liberal media or the conservative media, the media needs the current system in order to operate the way they do. And the revolution will most likely not be organized, but instead will be a spontaneous call to action spurred by some horrifying government action. The revolution begins with the actions of people like the Toynbee Tiler, who defied the law and the rules of society in order to spread what he considered to be a very important message. The revolution begins with those of us who can read between the lines and who believe none of what they hear and only half of what they see. Don’t believe the lies told by so-called “great” men and women of our time, because anything that you see widely publicized these days is also being controlled and spoon fed to the general public for a specific purpose. Go underground, go off the grid and seek out the truth. If enough people genuinely do this, then the revolution may finally begin.